Welcome to the Selectric Typewriter Museum!  I am Jim Forbes, curator.  The Museum started out as my "new" home page in 1999, just after I bought nine Selectric typewriters from the local school district at auction for $12.  The actual typewriter content is now just a small part of the Museum, which covers some of my wildly varied technical interests.  The Museum was hosted by my Internet service provider until spring 2004, when I took the plunge and got a domain name and hosting service for it.  I was constantly having to delete files with the 10mb limit, and now I have 500mb to play with, so I can leave up some of the larger files such as circuit board and schematic scans.  With the added room I should be able to build a "how Selectrics work" page, using information from a 1962 IBM Selectric Terminal manual I have.

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